Great to meet a wide variety of players from the energy and utility industry in Marseille on Tuesday for the FSTT’s technical day (“Les Journées Techniques”). OPTIMUM’s specialist engineers welcomed project owners as well as drilling / tunnelling contractors from all over France to discuss both current and future trenchless projects.
The stand also hosted the signature of an agreement between the DCA (European Drilling Contractors Association) and the FSTT to harmonise European HDD technical guidelines.
In the conference sessions, Alexandre Cambier and Théo Millet, alongside Marilyn Bennet (GRTgaz), Sylvain Cozzolino (GRTgaz) and Baptiste Cornelissen (SADE), provided insights into the ongoing microtunnel crossing of the River Durance. Two microtunnels, currently in progress, will cross a total of 1300m under the river, a motorway ramp, protected woodland, a flood barrier, and vineyards, to supply the strategic gas storage facility in Manosque, which in turn supplies gas to the whole of south-eastern France.
In addition, Modvenn Sili, in collaboration with Alcyme Rambaud (HDI), presented the EolMed offshore wind turbine project. The DN400 HDD landfall, completed earlier this year, will connect 3 floating turbines off the Mediterranean coast to the French electricity network.
